In a metal such as gold, increased thermal lattice scattering reduces electron mobility, raising resistivity. In intrinsic silicon, heating creates many more electron–hole carriers, and the carrier-density increase dominates, lowering resistivity. Thus A; equal block volume is irrelevant to resistivity, an intrinsic property.
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